Helen Webber - Tapestry - 190 cm - 160 cm - Patchwork tapestry

This patchwork tapestry by American artist Helen Webber is from a private collection.
It was purchased at a gallery in New York for USD 5,000 about 10 years ago.

Helen Webber was born on June 18, 1928, and died on September 17, 2019.

About Helen Webber

Art belongs everywhere, from cruise ships to churches.

This has been Helen Webber's motto since she began her career in the 1970s, creating hundreds of works of art for public spaces across the United States and abroad.

She was firmly convinced that art can touch the spirit of many more people than those whose artistic experiences are limited to the salons and walls of museums and galleries.

Her bold works of art, rich in color, created in a wide variety of media such as tapestry, glass, metal, wood, and clay, were installed in universities, corporations, medical facilities, cruise ships, hotels, religious spaces, community and civic centers, and even in a train station.

COLLABORATION WITH DESIGNERS

Over the years, many architects and interior designers have collaborated with Helen Webber, discovering that her work enhanced the spaces they designed, giving her the opportunity to create art for renowned companies, as well as for numerous residences.

Working with all kinds of committees and with many people from all walks of life, Helen faced the challenge of integrating her personal creative vision with the ideas and values of a broader community.

From mermaids to manual laborers, and everything in between: each new project takes me down a different path. And that’s exciting.

Fabric Bonding Upholstery

Tapestries are what she is best known for creating, and this medium dominates most of her work, which was first introduced to the design world in the mid-1970s.

The tapestries use a collage technique combining a variety of designer upholstery fabrics, such as velvets, brocades, fine wool, jacquard, mohair, handwoven artisanal wool, among many others. Threads of all kinds are incorporated into the tapestries, tracing the edges of each piece of fabric.

This specific technique, unique to Helen Webber, enables the creation of large-scale dramatic works, ranging from 1.80 meters to 20 meters.

Some examples include two tapestries, six and a half meters long on each side, created for a cruise ship, or four tapestries, five and a half meters long, hung in a civic center in California.